I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation.

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.

And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain.

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.